Patient trade selection from week one to the review
The account passing service at FTMO Passer was the first thing that respected the Tradeify rulebook. The rules looked fine on paper, but I never respected how open equity counted against the position size cap.
Size stayed at two micros until the buffer justified a change, and that patience is what saved the attempt. The assessment at Tradeify rewards consistency over heroics, which suited the way FTMO Passer trades. Every losing day ended early, which kept the position size cap comfortably out of the conversation.
I ended 8.3% up with no rule violations, which matters more to me than the speed of the pass. They flagged a rule change before it affected my account rather than after. Solid work from FTMO Passer, and the reporting alone justified the fee for me.
10 weeks of balanced execution
I lost two funded accounts before handing the third to FTMO Passer, and that one is still breathing. The pressure of trading real payout money made me cut winners early and hold losers far too long.
the senior trader set a monthly objective and a hard drawdown floor, then sized every position backwards from that floor. The funded stage at The 5%ers punishes inconsistency, and the monthly rhythm FTMO Passer imposed fixed that. They cut size after a strong month rather than pressing it, which felt odd until I saw the consistency.
Best month was strong, worst month was small and negative, and that ratio is why I stayed with FTMO Passer. A monthly call reviewed the numbers and adjusted the plan, and it never turned into a sales pitch. Solid, unglamorous and still running, which is the best description I can give of this service.
The setup filtering I needed before the assessment
I keep my My Funded Futures account with FTMO Passer because they treat preservation as the job and profit as the by-product. My first funded account died on a news spike I had no business being in front of.
The schedule was built around the My Funded Futures payout cycle rather than around my impatience. The My Funded Futures dashboard became something I check weekly instead of hourly, which is the real benefit here. Peak drawdown across many weeks never exceeded 1.8%, which is the number I care about most.
The account survived two volatile stretches that would have finished me on my own, and still ended 8.3% higher. I got a weekly summary with every trade, the reasoning and the risk taken, which I have never had elsewhere. I will keep renewing with FTMO Passer as long as the drawdown discipline stays where it is.
How calm position sizing reshaped everything
FTMO Passer made the two-step process at The 5%ers feel like a process instead of a mystery. Every green day tempted me to double size, and every red day convinced me to stop trading entirely.
A pre-session checklist had to be completed before any order went in, which slowed me down in the best way. Anyone who has sat through a The 5%ers two-step process knows the pressure is psychological, and FTMO Passer removed most of mine. They preferred missing a move to widening a stop, and repeated that trade-off many times.
It took 21 sessions, which was longer than the marketing suggested and exactly as long as the senior trader predicted. I never had to chase an invoice or a report, which sounds minor until you have dealt with the alternative. If your problem is discipline rather than strategy, FTMO Passer solves the right problem.
11 trading days of data-driven account handling
The challenge passing service at FTMO Passer was the first thing that made the My Funded Futures rules make sense. Trading alone meant nobody questioned my worst ideas, and the account paid for that silence.
They traded fewer setups than I would have, mostly the RTY around the New York open, and skipped anything near red-folder news. Passing a My Funded Futures account is a compliance exercise as much as a trading one, and FTMO Passer understood that distinction. The team took a full day off after a rough session rather than trying to win it back immediately.
It took 26 sessions, which was longer than the marketing suggested and exactly as long as the risk desk predicted. the risk desk explained decisions in plain English and never made me feel stupid for asking twice. I have no affiliation with FTMO Passer, just one passed evaluation and a much better sense of risk.
The reporting that made the difference
My funded FTMO account was three days from a breach when FTMO Passer took over the funded account management service. Between shifts I was managing open positions on a phone, which explains the state of the equity curve.
Every trade had a stop, a target and a written invalidation before it was placed, without exception. Managing a $25,000 FTMO account with FTMO Passer meant fewer decisions for me and better ones overall. Every idea was sized at 0.15 lots, so no single position could define the month.
The account survived two volatile stretches that would have finished me on my own, and still ended 8.1% higher. Support replied within a couple of hours even during a busy week, which surprised me. If your funded accounts keep dying in month one, this is the fix I would try.
9 weeks of patient trade selection
Six months into the account management service with FTMO Passer, my Apex Trader Funding account is still active and still paying. I had no routine, no review process, and no idea how close I was to the news-trading restriction on any given day.
They separated the payout account from the growth plan, which stopped me spending money that was still at risk. The Apex Trader Funding dashboard became something I check weekly instead of hourly, which is the real benefit here. Correlated positions were capped so a single dollar move could not hit the book three times.
Numbers aside, the real result is that I stopped checking the account every hour. The onboarding call ran long because I had questions, and nobody tried to rush me off it. If your funded accounts keep dying in month one, this is the fix I would try.
Professional position sizing and a verification stage I can defend
The passing service from FTMO Passer was the difference between another reset and a pass at FTMO. Work meant I could only watch the Asian session, and I kept forcing setups that simply were not there.
They flatly refused to trade the Asian session on volatile days, even when I argued there was an obvious move coming. Because FTMO Passer sized down, the qualification stage at FTMO looked uneventful on the equity chart, which is the entire point. The stop was never moved further away, not once, and that alone separated this from my own attempts.
We hit the target on day 15 and stopped trading immediately instead of adding a victory lap. There was a shared sheet I could check any time, so I never had to ask how the account was doing. My only regret is not doing this before paying for three resets at FTMO.
Understated setup filtering on a verification stage that pushed me
The evaluation passing service from FTMO Passer was worth every cent on my $100,000 Apex Trader Funding account. Confidence was not my issue, patience was, and the verification stage exposed that within a week.
The first week was almost boring: small size on the NQ, fixed stops, and a hard stop for the day after two losses. Anyone who has sat through a Apex Trader Funding verification stage knows the pressure is psychological, and FTMO Passer removed most of mine. They tracked floating drawdown, not just closed losses, which is the detail most traders ignore.
The result was 4.7% profit with 1.7% peak drawdown, and the funded credentials arrived shortly after. I got a weekly summary with every trade, the reasoning and the risk taken, which I have never had elsewhere. If you keep resetting Apex Trader Funding evaluations, FTMO Passer is the option I would point you to, provided you leave the plan alone.
The loss capping I needed before the evaluation
FTMO Passer inherited a $50,000 Topstep account with almost no drawdown room left and stabilised it. I was withdrawing nothing because I kept giving profits back before the payout window opened.
They kept a running drawdown tracker open all session so nobody had to guess how much room was left. FTMO Passer treated my Topstep account as a long-term asset rather than a lottery ticket, which is rare. They preferred a flat month to a breached account, and I have learned to feel the same way.
The $50,000 account grew 5.4% across many weeks, and I have withdrawn a portion of that rather than compounding blindly. I was told about a mistake before I noticed it myself, and told how it would be prevented next time. FTMO Passer is not going to make you rich in a month, and that is precisely why my account still exists.